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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'devastating damage' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe physical destruction caused by natural disasters or other events. For example, "The flood caused devastating damage to the city, with buildings and homes ruined and little left standing."
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But if we do not, surely we risk incurring devastating damage to life as we know it.
Dozens of UNRWA schools in Gaza suffered devastating damage during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas in the summer of 2014.
What does a military command do about a faceless enemy that does devastating damage with no more than perhaps a dozen attackers?
The definition of a category 3 is much more dire: "devastating damage will occur … many trees will be snapped or uprooted, blocking numerous roads.
Whatever taxes and jobs are supposedly dependent on London's banks, it cannot recompense the devastating damage their practices have done to the British economy.
"During the process of reform, the old system of cooperative medical care has suffered devastating damage," he wrote in the journal Beijing Social Sciences.
After devastating damage from Hurricane Sandy, followed by months of crowdsourced fund-raising, Court Street Grocers, the Carroll Gardens sandwich counter and specialty market, has opened a second, much smaller outpost, in Red Hook, devoted to heroes.
Reuters reported from Tehran that Western diplomats who had toured the British outposts 24 hours after the assault reported "devastating" damage and said the ambassador's residence had been "systematically destroyed".
First are the casualties the people killed and injured, and the lives that are shattered; then comes the less dramatic but still devastating damage to surviving businesses which can pile hardship on trauma.Measuring the economic aftershocks is hard.
It can also cause devastating damage to a child born when its mother has the disease in its active phase; half of such children die and the survivors suffer severe nerve damage.
1948 Fukui earthquake (M7.1) caused devastating damage to the Fukui basin.
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